Why shouldn't Social Security age be raised for future generations?

[ljm2002]

48. It's strange to me...

...here we are in a modern age, with the ability to provide for everyone with less work than ever before, with paying work disappearing before our very eyes, yet the hue and cry is to force more people to work longer.

What we need to do is reset the minimum wage to something reasonable, develop sustainable systems rather than forced-continuous-growth systems, and set the retirement age lower so people can retire and have some time to enjoy their leisure time.

Oh, I know: dream on. It's against the Calvinist philosophy, which would rather see people worked to the bone until they are old and decrepit. But to what end, I ask you? When are we going to look around and see what is possible, rather than working under the same tired old systems that got us into the current mess in the first place?

We can do better, and we absolutely do not need to have people work until they are 70. We can raise the salary cap on contributions, among other things, and wipe out the SS deficit in one fell swoop. It isn't hard to grasp conceptually, but the politicians don't want to bite the hands that feed them -- namely the rich and the super-rich, who don't want to contribute their fair share and would rather see the rest of us toil and slave until we fall over dead.